10 Best Wrestling Storylines Right Now
1. The Cody Vs. MJF Saga
Cody covered the gaping plot hole and removed the not ideal comparisons to Sting with one, aching line: "He was a bad guy, but he was my bad guy".
MJF is a despicable piece of sh*t because Cody - and this is the one, under-explained flaw in an otherwise exceptional storyline - saw something in MJF that nobody else did. MJF opened the main show of All In, unadvertised, in a decision met with some confusion by the crowd, but for Cody, there was none. He was very clear: MJF was the brightest future star in this industry, and he was desperate to make it happen for him.
That "for him" part, of course, infuriated MJF, who destroyed Cody's dream of being AEW World Champion by throwing in the towel...
...for him.
There is a rich poetry to all of it, this spellbinding fusion of wrestling storytelling and episodic television. MJF has stipulated that Cody cannot touch him. If Cody wants him in a match, Cody has to endure weeks and months of sociopathic abuse, hired goons, one of the biggest, most shredded hired goons in the company, and all the while, it never feels like relentless heat; he has outsmarted MJF, as all babyfaces should, by working out a loophole that saw MJF get tossed in a swimming pool.
It's funny (MJF's promos), it's harrowing and stirring (the strapping), and it's all building towards a furnace in Chicago because the complete lack of Cody getting his hands on MJF has been perfectly engineered to make that life-affirming when he finally does.